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Scientist Paul Anastas redesigns chemical processes for health and sustainability.

A new study has revealed why red supergiant stars appear to dance around in the space.

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President Joe Biden announced Wednesday he has appointed NASA Administrator Bill Nelson as one of four new members of the Cancer Cabinet, part of the President's Cancer Moonshot.

Grab your binoculars: A comet that has fascinated scientists for five years approaches its closest distance from Earth this week--and you might be able to catch a glimpse.

It's official: Russia will no longer be a partner on Europe's life-hunting Mars rover mission, which is scheduled to launch in the late 2020s.

Sometime around 400 million years after the birth of our universe, the first stars began to form. The universe's so-called dark ages came to an end and a new light-filled era began. More and more galaxies began to take s...

The payload for Viasat's second ViaSat-3 broadband satellite has arrived in California to be integrated with a Boeing chassis, the operator said July 13. The post Second ViaSat-3 payload arrives in California for integra...

Our best current theory about how galaxies form involves gravity, dark matter and mergers.

A new NASA mission will watch over dust-ups from orbit to quantify their effect on Earth's climate.

Each year, strong winds carry more than a billion metric tons--or the weight of 10,000 aircraft carriers--of mineral dust from Earth's deserts and other dry regions through the atmosphere. While scientists know that the ...

All you need to know about the elusive atmospheric phenomena called red sprites, blue jets and elves.

Video: 00:02:35 ESA's newest launch system has faced its first full validation test, carrying LARES-2, a scientific mission of the Italian space agency ASI, and a secondary payload package of French, Italian and Slovenia...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists launched the second Strontium Iodide Radiation Instrument (SIRI-2) instrument in December 2021 onboard Space Test Program (STP) Sat-6. SIRI-2, a gamma-ray spectrometer, will demo...

New work looks at using machine learning to decipher the early stages of supernovae explosions by reconstructing the light emitted during the outburst. The research was presented today at the 2022 National Astronomy Meet...

Twitter filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday (July 12) seeking to hold the SpaceX and Tesla chief to his agreement to buy the social media company for $44 billion.

We've rounded up the top 20 deals on space-related gear from telescopes to cameras and binoculars to star projectors.

Social media platforms are a ubiquitous communication tool, with nearly 2 billion people using Facebook every day, for example. But these platforms curate their offering, with neural networks using algorithms to recommen...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has collected its 10th sample as it continues searching for the most promising rocks that might harbor traces of life for a future mission to return to Earth.

Now that the world has gotten a glimpse of what the James Webb Space Telescope is capable of, astronomers around the world await their opportunity to pore over the data gathered by the telescope.

The European Space Agency has officially terminated cooperation with Russia on a mission to put a rover on Mars, with Russia's space chief furiously responding by banning cosmonauts on the ISS from using a Europe-made ro...

The European Space Agency on Wednesday celebrated the first flight of its Vega-C rocket, which is designed to provide more bang for customers' buck in the increasingly competitive business of launching satellites into or...